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India-Pakistan
Thousands attend Taliban funeral
2007-01-19
Thousands of mourners, including militants with assault rifles, attended a funeral on Thursday in a Pakistani tribal village for a Taliban fighter allegedly killed in a NATO raid in Afghanistan, witnesses said. About 4,000 people attended the funeral in the North Waziristan regionÂ’s Eidak village, said a local tribesman who attended the service. He declined to give his name, citing concerns for his own safety. Mourners included hundreds of militants with long hair and beards, who arrived in dozens of pickup trucks with dark, tinted windows.
Musta been somebody important. I do hope he suffered.
Posted by:Fred

#4  What a target rich environment. A missed opportunity.
Posted by: anymouse   2007-01-19 12:17  

#3  Lost target opportunity. It would have sent a message---a very strong message. Damn!
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2007-01-19 11:53  

#2  I wonder if there were no natural mourners, so the Talibs went door to door rounding people up at gunpoint or something, and kinda overdid it? I also wonder if these madrassah-trained geniuses can count high enough to know the difference between, say, 400 and 4000... or if they're still at the 1,2,3, many level of cognition.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-01-19 11:41  

#1  What, no smart bombs? Why weren't we on the invitee list?
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2007-01-19 01:06  

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